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32-35. These hints refer to the great battle between Kāla and the Asura, described in detail in BeFi XII.32-47. The same episode occurs in Vārāha-Purāņa CCI, with full particulars. In the recension of Sadala Miśra, it is missing. As to relations between Si and V.P. see below, XVI. In Te, the whole episode is missing : cp. Tessitori 1.c. p. [3]
34. 'Kāla flung his lasso, caught him, and ordered him to be brought before King Yama.' Cp. BeFi XII.42 ( 52 ).
kimkarais tu mahāghorair nirjitā dānavādhipāḥ/ kālākṣipati tān pāśair baddhā daityā mahābalāḥ // dandamudgaraghātena vašīkstās tataḥ kṣaņāt / atas ( taiḥ ) kimkarair nītā dharmarājāgratas tataḥ //
The corruption of this passage in Si is perhaps due to the fact that the idea of Kāla as of a servant of Yama was not very familiar to the common reader, Kāla being chiefly known as a name of Yama himself. Thus, in XII.26 the name of Kāla is omitted, though this person is described there ( see note ), and the passage XII.38ff. seems to be corrupted from what is told in ślokas XII.49ff. of BeFi, which contain a praise of Kāla's power : for, in 39 of Si, the copyist, mistaking the proper name Kāla for a synonym of velā, omitted an original velā after tīņa, whereas in 38, an original Kāla was omitted for the same reason. Chapter XIII
The XIIIth adhyāya of BeFi contains a description of the celestial joys, which are treated in the next chapter of Si. About the states of saṁsāra of the different sinners, which form the subject of Și XIII, some hints occure in BeFi XVIII.28-49, a passage of which Belloni Filippi has edited only 9 ślokas. In Sadala Miśra's text, this chapter about the sinners is completely missing. Compared with the just mentioned passage of BeFi, as well as with the chapters of V.P. dealing with this subject ( CC, 68ff., CCII, 34ff., CCIII, CCIV ), most particulars of Si are different.
5. The babūla-tree reminds one of the śālmali-tree, which is
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